Build, automate, and optimize your own village on procedurally-generated 3D terrain. Use marble-run chutes, railways, logistic blocks, conveyor belts, and a variety of worker units to research useful new technology and keep your houses supplied with goods.

Miksi Early Access?

“I've been running the game in a limited beta for several months now, improving the game based on feedback & suggestions. The foundation is solid and it's ready for a wider audience, who I hope will be able to help join the discussion and help me decide how to implement various features and brainstorm further improvements to the game as it continues its final phase of development.”

Miten kauan Early Access -vaihe suunnilleen kestää?

“I anticipate at least six more months to finish up the planned set of features, polish, and improvements that I feel it needs to be considered a '1.0' state. From there, I will add on any larger modules of functionality post-launch if there is enough interest.

It's possible the game could wind up with an increased scope that might warrant a longer Early Access period. That'll be a decision to make based on the community's response to the game.”

Miten täysi versio eroaa Early Access -versiosta?

“There are a large number of planned changes I think will meaningfully improve the game: tons of quality-of-life features, more end-game goals, Steam Workshop support for creating and sharing custom maps & scenarios, all-around visual polish & sound effects, balance changes, optimization, more customization and decorative options, better tutorials for late-game technologies, as well as upgrades to gameplay systems of trains, water, and computational circuits.”

Millainen on Early Access -version nykyinen tila?

“The core set of gameplay is intact and stable, and playtesters have been getting dozens or hundreds of hours out of it. Players can create games on randomized & infinite terrain, and work their way through the entire tech tree. There's no official end-game state or story /campaign mode, but once players reach the end of the tech tree they can keep optimizing their town for a long time. In-game visual assets are mostly final. Many of the localizations are works-in-progress that will need to be improved over time. The game has music, but most sound effects are missing. There is a creative mode where players can build any amount of objects they want with no costs or limits. There is a basic tutorial to get new players up to speed. There are no combat or survival elements, and there are no definite plans to include this, but that could change based on feedback.”

Hinnoitellaanko peli toisin Early Accessin aikana ja sen jälkeen?

“The price will be the same after Early Access.”

Miten yhteisö otetaan mukaan kehitysprosessiin?

“I run a Discord server that I use every day to chat with players and get a sense of what features & fixes are most important. I love hearing suggestions for how to make the game better, and I will continue to use this throughout development: https://discord.gg/Gyv3NKJ”

Osta Factory Town

23.toukokuu

Thought I'd spend a few days knocking out some high-priority Quality of Life features players have been asking for - like the ability to view & modify multiple item slots at a time, and easily activate or deactivate slots so they don't fill up with unwanted items. And dragging & dropping stuff to the Hotbar, and copy/pasting object properties.

One very handy feature is if you use the "C" tool to copy an object onto your cursor, it will also copy its properties, and if you Ctrl-click when building it'll paste those properties onto your newly built object!

17.toukokuu

It's been about a month in development, but it's finally here! The long-awaited "108" patch that improves game balance & progression across the board. The upshot is that Coins now are meaningful, research progression makes sense, upgrading the Base is useful, and town layout is now an interesting challenge!

It took so long because I kept putting out small updates on the beta branch, gathered feedback, scrapped changes that didn't work, tried new features, until finally I have something that I think works extremely well.

All your old saves will be compatible, but it may also be worth starting a new save from scratch because the progression up to Base level 10 is such an improved experience, it's almost like a whole new game.

There's also a number of bug fixes & QoL improvements as well, like being able to see charts of your current coin counts!

There's a TON of changes, but the big ones are these:

Markets now consume goods & produce happiness directly

Markets only consume when 'hungry', not endlessly

Building & upgrading houses near markets will allow them to unlock higher tiers of demand that let them consume faster (and therefore earning more money)

Foot Paths and Roads are used to connect Houses to Markets

These higher tiers of demand can only be filled by better-quality items

Coins are now used in a lot of production recipes

Lots of research has been re-ordered, and linked to Base upgrades

There are now charts to track & pause coin expenditure since you will often run low

This isn't the final balance patch by far - and I'm planning shortly to add a more robust Endgame state, which will require further changes - but it's a huge step in the direction that I always wanted the game to feel like.

And of course I'm always interested in any feedback you have if you feel things need further changes, please post that in these forums or in the Discord (which is now verified! https://discord.gg/factorytown)

What's next? My plan is to start working on optimization, so that players can have much better framerates, especially on large maps. There should be lots of room for improvement here! After that I will add more endgame content so you can create some really crazy megafactories.

That's all for now, thanks for your patience and for your support as always! (Reviews are always appreciated too, nudge nudge!)

Tietoja pelistä

Start with just a few workers and a single building in the middle of the wilderness. Explore your surroundings and harvest trees, crops, and minerals, then process them into increasingly valuable goods.

Invest in research to unlock automated machinery and logistics to optimize your transport networks & production chains, eventually discovering magic-powered systems that allow clever players to boost their efficiency to extreme levels.

- Tons of optimization tools at your disposal - roads, wagons, minecarts & railways, marble-run chutes, conveyor belts, and other magical and physical contraptions- 3D terrain will make it a challenge to deliver your resources from high in the mountains down to your production centers- Infinite, procedurally generated map with lots of parameters to adjust- Build complex logical systems with gates, triggers, and filters to make sure resources get to the right destination- Manage supply chains to keep your population supplied with food, clothing, medicine, and other important goods- Use simple click-and-drag actions to directly issue behavior commands to workers, telling them what items to pick up and where to deliver them.- Unlock magical secrets to boost your production buildings to absurd output rates- Mountain in your way? Need a river? No problem - use the terrain sculpting tools to shape the world to suit your needs.- Sandbox / Creative Mode / Powerful procedural world generation & map editor tools